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I'm reminded of George Orwell's quote: “Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
by jlangenauer 9y ago
I'm reminded of George Orwell's quote:
“Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed: everything else is public relations.”
- dragonwriter 9y agoOrwell is wrong, because most of public relations (and propaganda more generally) is printing what someone else does not want printed, too.
- bazzargh 9y agoOrwell isn't wrong in this case... because the quote wasn't Orwell. Who actually came up with it is lost to the mists of time https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/01/20/news-suppress/ Orwell did state a similar notion, "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear", in the preface to Animal Farm.
- jokestir 9y agoForgive me but that is pedantic. You know exactly what Orwell means.
- dragonwriter 9y agoI have no idea what the (probably not Orwell, as others have pointed out) author meant if it wasn't what the words say; I assume, though, that they meant exactly what they said.
- JadeNB 9y agoPerhaps something like "journalism is revealing what someone wants to be hidden" would satisfy a stricter reading at the cost of being less punchy? EDIT: On starting to read the article, I quite like the slogan "comforting the afflicted, afflicting the comfortable" that they mention.